New feature! Regular Epolitics.com contributor and friend-of-the-site Beth Becker has just launched a “Political Social Grab Bag” email newsletter, and she’s been kind enough to share it with us. Rock and roll! I’ve excerpted...
Last week I had the privilege of going on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Radio show, where we talked at length about the DSCC and other Democratic groups’ grassroots outreach and media spending to try to salvage the 2014 elections...
“Mommy, where were you during the Great Email Deluge of 2014?” Democratic email fundraising may not quite have reached the level of a Global Catastrophe yesterday, but it sure as hell got talked about: I heard an earful at a NARAL...
Hi folks, my latest Campaigns & Election Magazine Technology Bytes column is now online, so be sure to check it out. This is the last edition to hit the public eye before Election Day, and we went with a series of shorter pieces to pack as much...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: for those about to rant, we salute you! A special note to our readers-via-email:...
We’ve talked already about early signs of the potential of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s field organizing to deliver votes in places like Iowa and North Carolina, but the SCALE of the operation they’re building is...
Update: The DSCC is apparently on track to have 4000 staff on the payroll by election day, about as many as the Obama 2012 presidential campaign. Last week we talked about one aspect of the Democrats’ plan to confound conventional wisdom and...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: an apt jab at the iPhone 6 madness. Plus, anybody out there speak Finnish? 1...
Howdy folks, Epolitics.com is back in business after some annoying technical problems here in the bunker. Basically, my laptop gave up the ghost, leaving me to rely on an iPad (fine for text, bad for files such as new images for the site) and an...
The traditional U.S. electoral dynamic: Republicans have the money, Democrats have the ground game. This year’s mid-term elections, though, are starting to look more like 2008’s presidential race, where Democrats had the money AND the...